Word: barks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hands out booklets to mothers on the care and feeding of babies, follows golden-wedding anniversaries with fond attention. But of all the Press's features, perhaps none has a more faithful following than a weekly column called "Kennel and Leash," by Dog Editor Maxwell Riddle, 52, whose bark generally has plenty of bite...
...human being into the body of an animal falls into the hands of a teen-age boy (Tommy Kirk), who thereupon starts sprouting long white hair, soon finds himself living a dog's life. His father (Fred MacMurray) is of course horrified to hear him bark like a dog. The young pups who make up most of Producer Disney's audience will snap happily at this scented rubber bone...
Eilshemius' muse was wayward, poetic, and in the end cruel. Critic Duncan Phillips notes that in one picture Eilshemius "symbolically depicted himself as adrift, all alone, in a fragile bark rushed along by the fierce currents of wild, rapid waters which swirl around an island under a witching moon. It is a symbol of all futility and frustration under the Tantalus of beauty and romance. It tells of his endless efforts to land on the island of desire...
...neighbors, of course, are horrified, but they console themselves that Horace Pennypacker's bark is worse than his family tree. In private life he is a devoted husband and father, an insufferable swaggerer about his "contribution to the growth of Harrisburg, Pa.": eight sturdy young Pennypackers...
...stomach some doggedly doggy sex interest and the book's odd dog conversation (a kind of Madison Avenue jive), he may be able to grin, once or twice, wider than his own canines. But as he wags his little tale, Satirist Wallop seems to be unaware that his bark is a great deal worse than his bite...